The SunSpec Alliance is a trade alliance of developers, manufacturers, service providers, and others, together pursuing information standards for the distributed energy industry. SunSpec standards address most operational aspects of PV and other distributed energy power plants on the smart grid—including residential, commercial, and utility-scale systems—thus reducing cost, promoting innovation, and accelerating industry growth. Over 60 organizations are members of the SunSpec Alliance, including global leaders from Asia, Europe, and North America. Membership is open to corporations, non-profits, and individuals. For more information about the SunSpec Alliance, or to download SunSpec specifications at no charge, please visit the website..

CALSEIA, the California Solar Energy Industries Association, is the nation’s oldest and largest solar industry association representing manufacturers, installers, and distributors of solar panels and related components and technologies throughout the state. Since the 1970s, CALSEIA has advanced the common interests of the California solar industry, helping make California's solar market the most robust in the United States. CALSEIA provides solar industry members located throughout California with a presence at the Capitol in Sacramento, at the CPUC in San Francisco, and at hearings and workshops throughout the state. As a policy-dependent industry, it is imperative that the California solar industry engages politically to fight for, and defend, good solar policy in California. Membership in CALSEIA is the best investment for your business money can buy.

The North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP) is the most respected, well-established, and widely recognized certification organization for the North American solar industry. Raising industry standards and promoting consumer confidence, NABCEP offers certification and certificate programs to renewable energy professionals throughout North America. NABCEP certification is the “gold standard” for PV and Solar Heating Installation and PV Technical Sales Professionals. NABCEP, a non-profit 501(c)(6) organization, was founded with the mission to support and work with the renewable energy and energy efficiency industries, professionals and stakeholders to develop and implement quality credentialing programs for practitioners.

The Solar Energy Finance Association (SEFA) was formed as the successor to Solar Access to Public Capital (SAPC) initiative, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and managed by NREL. Its objective is to bring $1 trillion in low-cost capital to the DG market via proven financing methods such as securitization. SEFA will take on these efforts by assuming the roles, activities and initiatives developed by SAPC that NREL, as a government sponsored entity is unable to continue. SEFA is advancing the availability of capital and financing options for the solar and renewable energy industries by establishing standards, best practices through the involvement of key industry stakeholders.

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MEDIAPARTNER/// BLOOMBERG NEW ENERGY FINANCE

Bloomberg New Energy Finance provides unique analysis, tools and data for decision makers driving change in the energy system. With unrivalled depth and breadth, we help clients stay on top of developments across the energy spectrum from our comprehensive web-based platform. BNEF has 200 staff based in London, New York, Beijing, Cape Town, Hong Kong, Munich, New Delhi, San Francisco, São Paulo, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Washington D.C., and Zurich.BNEF products fit your daily workflow, streamline your research, sharpen your strategy and keep you informed. BNEF’s sectoral products provide financial, economic and policy analysis, as well as news and the world’s most comprehensive database of assets, investments, companies and equipment in the clean energy space. BNEF’s regional products provide a comprehensive view on the transformation of the energy system by region. Bloomberg New Energy Finance leverages Bloomberg’s 15,000 employees in 192 locations, generating 5,000 daily news stories across TV, BusinessWeek, Mobile, Digital and Radio.

SUN & WIND ENERGY is one of the leading international trade publications for renewable energy. Global technical market overviews, market incentive scheme analyses, background reporting and current news are published in 6 Solar editions and 4 Wind editions per year. Next to the target circulation to international renewable energy professionals SUN & WIND ENERGY is present on major events and conferences of the solar and wind industry. Each issue will additionally focus on selected key markets through special articles (incl. translation into the related language) and direct distribution.

PHOTON is the largest and most influential publisher worldwide in the field of solar electricity production and the only publisher who also runs its own laboratory. Headquartered in Germany since 1996, we are a renowned, independent magazine publisher dedicated to applying a critical approach to journalism. There is a strict separation between our editorial teams and advertising department to ensure a journalistic environment free of the influences of public relations. Our independent reporting is exactly the thing that appeals to our readers.

Energetica Magazines-Power generation and Energy efficiency print and online platformsEnergetica International is part of the Group of Publications Omnimedia, well-known with its publications-Energetica21 in Spanish, and Energetica India based in Mumbai, India.Energetica International will publish 3 print issues in 2014, with 10,000 copies/issue. The print and digital editions present the current market and product trends from the Solar PV, Wind, Biomass, Diesel&Gas, Energy Storage, Solar Thermal, CSP, Smart Grids industries. Each edition has got a country special: Turkey and Chile, USA and South Africa, MENA, Morocco and Europe.Energetica India will publish 9 issues in 2014, with 10,000 print copies/issue. Main events with distribution of the print issues are 8th Renewable Energy India Expo, Intersolar India, Powergen India, Energy Storage India, etc.

With a very strong focus on data quality - ENF has differentiated itself from the competition by offering unparalleled depth in the areas it covers. Our company directory covers more companies than any other source in the industry; our market research team interview more companies than any other source in the industry and our product directory includes more products than any other source in the industry.

Recharge - news, analysis and opinion for renewable energy professionals. Recharge is the multi-platform news service for senior professionals in solar, wind and related sectors. It balances in-depth coverage of wind and solar with relevant news from the wider global renewables industry. The result is an agenda-setting and indispensible news and information service that keeps its readers informed and better able to operate successfully.

Renewable Energy Database,based in Berlin, Germany, was created in 2008 by a group of experts professionally and privately dealing with the subjects of renewable energies and energy efficiency. Since the beginning their goal has been to make the rapidly developing renewable energy market more transparent and, through the popularization of the most recent and efficient technologies in the green energy sector, make the global development more sustainable.

In a world drowning in "news", time-starved professionals are demanding information that’s targeted, relevant, and timely. Solar Novus Today, and its complementing newsletter, Solar Flares, combine the strengths of traditional journalism using today’s online technology to provide insightful, original reporting and in-depth news and analysis.

Since 1999, SolarServer with up to 16.000 users per day is the most visited German Solar-Portal. A Monthly average of 210,000 hits, more than 1.5 million pages viewed and persistent top rankings in Google for important keywords demonstrates the attractiveness of the portal.

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MEDIAPARTNER/// SOLAR PV DIRECTORY

SolarPVDirectory.com is the new information portal holding a large and growing Directory of equipment suppliers, manufacturers and installers for the solar thermal and photovoltaic solar power industry worldwide. It has been devised in order that every solar and photovoltaic installer can source products, every solar module manufacturer can source equipment and every interested customer can understand the industry and find the right partner.

SOLAR PV DIRECTORY WEBSITE

MEDIAPARTNER/// NAVIGANT

Navigant Research is a market research and consulting team that provides in-depth analysis of global clean technology markets. The team's research methodology combines supply-side industry analysis, end-user primary research and demand assessment, and deep examination of technology trends to provide a comprehensive view of these industry sectors.

Eco-Business is a media company serving Asia Pacific’s cleantech, corporate responsibility and sustainable business community. Our platforms include the award-winning Eco-Business.com site – the leading regional online publication in this space, Eco-Business magazine, and the Responsible Business Forum on Sustainable Development – Asia’s apex event on sustainable and responsible business.

FuturENERGY is a modern concept in technical publications, highly focused on the reader and advertiser with an innovative, vibrant design providing, a unique bilingual Spanish/English format and a highly effective international distribution. Dealing with all energy topics from renewables, efficiency, electric vehicles, smart cities, smart grids, etc. FuturENERGY publishes 10 issues per year, both printed and online with a totally free digital edition, downloadable and printable, allows greater access to our content and guarantees maximum exposure for advertisers.